About This Training: This training offers 15 hours of in person Zoom training sessions and 5 hours of self-study for anyone with an interest in understanding the impacts of trauma on the whole system while learning to integrate a trauma informed lens into their scope of practice.

Trauma Center Trauma-Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY) is a program of the Center for Trauma and Embodiment at the Justice Resource Institute (JRI). It is an empirically validated, evidence-based, adjunctive treatment for complex trauma and complex posttraumatic stress disorder.

This training is a body centered approach to healing trauma. It is built from the framework of intersectionality and provides tools and an understanding of trauma theory, attachment theory, neuroscience, and yoga to understand the impacts of trauma on our body, life, and relationships. Throughout the training, participants will add an understanding of how to facilitate trauma-informed movement and breath practices. This is a foundational training that aims to take a broad stroke approach to understanding trauma. The hope is that this trauma informed lens provides participants with the groundwork needed to not recreate trauma or trauma dynamics within themselves, relationships, and community. Participants are invited to explore the various ways in which this embodied movement practice, rooted in a trauma informed framework, can be a starting point towards recovery in their own bodies first and then integrated into individual and communal spheres of influence.

Scope of Practice After this Training: This is an introductory training to understand the framework and modality that is Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY). This training will give participants the tools to integrate a trauma informed framework into the work that they are doing. Those who take this training will be able to offer movement guided by a trauma informed lens. For those who are interested in offering Trauma Sensitive Yoga classes, additional training is needed in order to meet survivors of trauma with full competence on their healing journey. The Center for Trauma and Embodiment does offer a 300 hour certification (for which this training is a prerequisite) for those who wish to become a facilitator of this Trauma Sensitive Yoga modality.

Training Schedule: Please note that the times of the training are all in mountain standard time (MST).

Friday March 25th - 4:00pm - 7:00pm

Saturday March 26th - 10:00am - 6:00pm

Sunday March 27th - 10:00am - 6:00pm

*Saturday and Sunday there is a two hour lunch break.

Prerequisite: An interest in the training material. You do not need to be a yoga teacher or a mental health provider to attend. You do not need any prior yoga experience to attend. All are welcome to attend this training.

*This foundational training is a required prerequisite for the 300-hour Trauma Center Trauma-Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY) Certification Program offered by the Center for Trauma and Embodiment. 

Sliding Scale Payment Options: The value of this training is $350 USD. We offer a self-determined way to invest in this training. The payment scale is based on your self-determined access to resources, social capital, and your current financial situation due to Covid-19. You are invited to reflect on your access to resources, choose your amount, and then register for the training.

Service Fee: There is a 2.5% service fee added by my website provider for each registration. This helps to cover payment processing fees. You will see that reflected during the checkout process of your registration.

If paying a lump sum is not accessible for you, payment plans are available. All payments must be made before the start date of the training. Please email amanitraumasensitiveyoga@gmail.com with your payment plan.

There are scholarships available for those who are in need. Please email amanitraumasensitiveyoga@gmail.com for more information about a scholarship for this training if you are interested.